The sons and daughters of Sir Richard Strachey and Lady Strachey. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey (1817 &ndash 1908 British soldier and Indian administrator third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey 1st Baronet Dorothea is the second from the left.

Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (1865 or 1866–1960), English novelist and translator. Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Family Background and Childhood

Dorothy Bussy was a member of the Strachey family, one of ten children of Jane Strachey and the great British Empire soldier and administrator Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey (1817 &ndash 1908 British soldier and Indian administrator third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey 1st Baronet The British Empire was the largest empire in history and for over a century was the foremost global power. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey (1817 &ndash 1908 British soldier and Indian administrator third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey 1st Baronet Writer and critic Lytton Strachey and the first English translator of Freud, James Strachey, were her brothers. Giles Lytton Strachey (ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃɪ 1 March 1880 &ndash 21 January 1932 was a British writer and critic James Beaumont Strachey (1887 – 1967 was a British psychoanalyst and with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English She was educated at the Marie Souvestre (1830-1905) girls' school at Les Ruches, Fontainebleau, France and later in England when Souvestre removed the school to the Allenwood Academy there. Marie Souvestre ( April 28, 1830 - March 30, 1905) was a feminist educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women For the game see 1830 (board game. Year 1830 ( MDCCCXXX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland She was later a teacher with Souvestre, and one of her pupils was Eleanor Roosevelt. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 11 1884 &ndash November 7 1962 Dorothy Bussy and Marie Souvestre were both strong influences on the young Eleanor.

Personal life

In 1903 Dorothy (37) married the French painter Simon Bussy (1870-1954), who knew Matisse, and was on the fringes of the Bloomsbury circle. Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954 was a French Artist, known for his use of Colour and his fluid brilliant and original draughtsmanship The Bloomsbury Group was an English collectivity of loving friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century He was five years younger, and the son of a shoemaker from the Jura town of Dole. Lady Strachey’s liberalism faltered at the sight of him actually cleaning up his plate with pieces of bread. The family drama "shook the regime of Lancaster Gate to its foundations" (Holroyd), and, despite the silent disapprobation of the older Stracheys, Dorothy remained determined to marry him with what her brother Lytton later called "extraordinary courage".

Dorothy was bisexual, which was common in those circles, and was involved in an affair with Lady Ottoline Morrell. Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of both sexes or to a bisexual orientation The Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell ( June 16, 1873 – April 21, 1938) was an English Aristocrat and society hostess She became friends with Charles Mauron the lover of E.M. Forster. Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879–7 June 1970 was an English novelist Short story writer Essayist, and Librettist

Writing

Dorothy Bussy anonymously published one novel, Olivia, in 1949, printed by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, in which lesbian loves get entangled in the emotional and sexually-charged atmosphere of erotic pedagogy in a girls' school. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Leonard Sidney Woolf ( November 25, 1880 &ndash August 14, 1969) was a noted British political theorist author publisher and civil servant (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women Gustav Wyneken ( March 19, 1875 &ndash December 8, 1964) German Educational reformer free thinker and charismatic As well as drawing on her own experiences in the schools of Marie Souvestre, the novel's theme probably owes much to Bussy's viewing of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform, that had been distributed in England before the war. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Mädchen in Uniform ( 1931, 89 minutes 16 mm) is a German feature-length film based on a Novel by Christa Winsloe It may also owe something to Colette's novel Claudine at School (1900). Colette was the pen name of the French Novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette ( January 28 1873 &ndash August 3 Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar Bussy's novel was translated into French and appeared in France with an introduction by Rosamond Lehmann. Rosamond Lehmann CBE ( February 3, 1901 - March 12, 1990) was a British Novelist. It was filmed, with the lesbian elements toned down, in France in 1951 by Jacqueline Audry. Jacqueline Audry (1908–1977 was a French Film director who started making films in post- war France and specialised in Literary adaptations A BBC radio dramatisation was broadcast in the 1990s. In 1999 her novel appeared at number 35 on a '100 best lesbian and gay novels' list.

Dorothy Bussy was also a close friend of the French Nobel Prize Winning author André Gide, whom she met by chance in the summer of 1918 when she was fifty-two, and with whom she struck up a lively correspondence. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common She adored him, although he was a married homosexual and thus unavailable to her, and she later translated all his works into English. Their long-distance friendship lasted for over thirty years. Their letters are published in Richard Tedeschi's Selected Letters of Andre Gide and Dorothy Bussy, and there is also a three-volume French edition. The originals are preserved in the British Library. The British Library ( BL) is the National library of the United Kingdom.

Her daughter was the painter Jane Simone Bussy (1906-1960). Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

References

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd (1994)

External links

• Review of reprint of Olivia